LIST OF INCORPORATED SOCIETIES. 
NAME OF SOCIETY. DATE OF INCORPORATION. 
WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SocrETY - - - 10th June, 1868 
AUCKLAND INSTITUTE - - cu - 10th June, 1868. 
PHILOSOPHICAL [INSTITUTE OF odd - - 22nd October, 1868. 
Oraco [INSTITUTE - - - - - - - 18th October, 1869. 
WESTLAND INSTITUTE - 3 21st December, 1874. 
Hawxe’s Bay PHILOSOPHICAL sass - - 81st March, — 1875. 
SOUTHLAND ÍwsrrTUTE - - - - - - 91st July, 1880. 
WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
OFFICE-BEARERS FOR 1882 :—President—W. T. L. Travers, F.L.8.; Vice- 
presidents—Hon. G. R. Johnson, Dr. Buller, C.M.G., F.R.S. ; Council—A. 
K. Newman, M.B., M.R.C.P., J. P. Maxwell, A.I.C.E., R. Govett, M. 
Chapman, James Hector, M.D., C.M.G., F.R.8., S. H. Cox, F.G.8., F.C.8., 
T. King ; Auditor—Oliver Wakefield ; Secretary and Treasurer—R. B. Gore. 
Deco For 1883 :— President—' The Hon. G. Randall Johnson, 
M.L.C. ; Vice-presidents—Dr. Buller, C.M.G., F.R.S., A. K. Newman, M.B., 
M.R.C.P.; Council —R. Govett, M. Chapman, James Hector, M.D., C.M.G., 
FRS., 8. H. Cox, F.G.8., F.C.S., T. King, W. T.-L. Travers, F.L.S., E 
B. Hutchinson, M.R.C.8.; Auditor—H. F. Logan ; Secretary and Treasurer— 
R. B. Gore. 
Extracts from the Rules of the Wellington Philosophical Society. 
5. Every member shall contribute annually to the funds of the Society the sum of 
one guinea. 
6. The annual contribution shall be due on the first day of January in each year. 
7. The sum of ten pounds may be paid at any time as a composition for life of the 
ordinary annual payment. 
14. The time and place of the General Meetings of members of the Society shall be 
fixed by the Council and duly announced by the Secretary. 
AUCKLAND INSTITUTE. - 
OFFICE-BEARERS FOR 1882 :— President —E. A. Mackechnie; Council—G. 
Aickin, J. M. Clark, Rt. Rev. W. G. Cowie, D.D., His Honour Mr. Justice 
Gillies, Hon. Colonel Haultain, Neil Heath, J. Martin, F.G.S., T. Peacock, 
J. A. Pond, Rev. A. G. Purchas, M.R.C.S.E., S. Percy Smith, F.R.G.S. ; 
Auditor—T. Macffarlane ; Secretary and Treasurer—T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S. 
